Guest alan_ri Report post Posted April 17, 2008 Hi all! I have tried to run Frostwire on IcedTea but with no luck.I know that is recommended to use sun-jre,but I would like to use IcedTea. I remember that I was able to run Frostwire on IcedTea on some distro,but I can't remember which one,so I'm wondering what could be the problem that's stoping me on this?Thanks for any suggestions. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gul Dukat 0 Report post Posted April 17, 2008 Try starting Frostwire from the konsole. What kind of errors do you get? Or even better post them here. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pmpatrick 0 Report post Posted April 21, 2008 I can answer that because I'm having the same problem. Here's my output using mdv 2008.1, frostwire-4.13.5-2 and java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0-24.614.2mdv2008.1 as well as java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.05-1mdv2008.1(both included in the powerpack version): $ frostwire Starting FrostWire... Java exec found in PATH. Verifying... OOPS, you don't seem to have a valid JRE. FrostWire works best with Sun JRE available at http://www.java.com [java = openjdk] You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /usr/lib/ hierarchy You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com ls: cannot access /usr/java/j*: No such file or directory OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /usr/java/ hierarchy You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com ls: cannot access /opt/j*: No such file or directory OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /opt/ hierarchy You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com It appears to be a linking problem as all the java stuff appears to be in various subdirectories of /usr/lib/jvm/ and frostwire is not searching there. I've tried making some links into /opt and other places to no avail but I haven't really studied the problem thoroughly. The linking is kind of complicated as /usr/bin/java links into /etc/alternatives/java which further links into the icedtea version of the java exec with links back into /usr/lib/jvm/. I'll have to experiment later but I'm considering removing the icedtea rpm and see if I can get the java exec to link into the sun version. It doesn't appear that frostwire likes the icedtea java version, however. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest psymole Report post Posted May 2, 2008 I'm having the same trouble. I use this network for school and the only client i like is frostwire any ideas Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ianw1974 11 Report post Posted May 2, 2008 If you have multiple java installs, then fix the linking with: update-alternatives --config java then choose the number of the java install you want. You'll see them listed, so you can then switch all of it over to icedtea of whatever. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pmpatrick 0 Report post Posted May 12, 2008 Thanks ianw. That saved me a whole bunch of work trying to reconfigure all those java links. Resetting the java default to Sun's java 1.6.0 worked perfectly. Frostwire is running fine now. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
